Owʹain (Sir).

The Irish knight who passed through St. Patrick’s purgatory by way of penance. (Henry of Saltrey: The Descent of Owain.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Over
Over
Over and Over Again
Over Edom will I cast my Shoe (Psalm lx. 8; cviii. 9)
Over the Left
Overdo (Justice)
Overreach (Sir Giles)
Overture
Overy
Ovid
Owain (Sir)
Owen Meredith
Owl
Owl
Owl-light
Owl in an Ivy Bush (Like an)
Owl was a Baker’s Daughter (The)
Owlery
Owlglass (German, Eulenspiegel)
Ox
Ox-eye